Tag: C.S. Lewis

“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.” –C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe– “He doesn’t like being tied down–and of course he has other

At the very beginning of the Bible, in the eleventh chapter of Genesis, we have this description of the Tower of Babel: While men were migrating eastward, they discovered a valley in the land of Sennaar and settled there. They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks

Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and through it all the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.

For I know well the Spring that flows and runs, Although it is night. That eternal Spring is hidden, For I know well where it has its rise, Although it is night. I do not know its origin, nor has it one; But I know that every origin has come

It was the autumn of 1980. My friend Ann and I were walking to the Harvard Divinity School Library. As we made our way along the little path that wound its way among fragrant pine trees, we paused before an old-fashioned looking lamppost, one of many on campus.

And then they will see the Son of Man coming upon clouds with great power and majesty. –Mark 13:26– Behold, he is coming amid the clouds, and every eye will see him. –Revelation 5:7– Years ago my friend, Father Frans Berkhout, and I were on our way to

A Homily for All Saints Day When I was in fifth grade, I remember reading a parable from ancient India. It has stayed with me all these years. Six blind men try to describe an elephant. The first blind man grabs hold of the elephants moving trunk and says, “Unless